摘要:
A record carrier having essentially circular tracks concentrically located around a point of rotation. The record carrier is divided into circular zones each having m tracks, where m is an integer. Each track within a zone is subdivided into n sectors, where n is an integer which is constant per zone and which increases as the zone is more remote from the point of rotation. Each sector including a header portion and a data portion. The header portions in the radial direction in each zone are in line. In each zone the condition of m*n=j*k is satisfied, where is j an integer greater than or equal to 2 and is constant for each zone, and k is an integer.
摘要:
Embodiments of a data storage system having thermally activated readout are provided, in one embodiment, a data storage system includes a source of heat, a substrate, a write layer disposed above the substrate, a copy layer disposed above the write layer, a flying head disposed above the layers and carrying the source of heat for heating a selected spot on the copy and write layers, wherein the write layer comprises a ferromagnetic material selected to have an extremely high coercivity at room temperature and a very high write temperature Twrite, and the copy layer comprises a ferromagnetic material selected to have a coercivity always less than coercivity of the write layer at the same temperature and a copy temperature Tcopy substantially less than the write temperature of the write layer.
摘要:
Fabrication of an MO disc, the formation of a master pattern of servo and track information, and the subsequent transfer of that pattern to a series of pits and grooves on a substrate. On top of that substrate, at least one sacrificial layer is provided atop a relatively hard layer. The recording stack may be provided with both silicon nitride and silicon dioxide top layers, with the silicon dioxide layer acting as a sacrificial layer to ensure that the hard layer, of silicon nitride, remains at the end of the process. A layer of aluminum or aluminum alloy may be deposited, with the aluminum plugs filling the grooves and pits (created by the embossed servo information) to a level higher than any of the adjacent layers of silicon dioxide, silicon nitride, or similar dielectric layer. Since the polishing rate of aluminum can be far faster than that of the silicon dioxide, then the aluminum can be etched or otherwise removed down to a level equal to or slightly below a planar surface with the silicon dioxide, with the silicon dioxide layer allowing for some small level of over polishing. The silicon nitride layer is protected completely; the silicon dioxide layer partially remains and is partially removed; and the aluminum metal which fills the grooves and pits would rise only to a level substantially equal the very flat top surface of the silicon dioxide.
摘要:
Marks with curved edges are used in data patterns and sensed with proximity recording. Circular, elliptical, and oval marks are examples of marks with curved edges that can be used in the present invention. The marks with curved edges are used to define data patterns (e.g. position error signal patterns) as a function of radius. If the marks with curved edges have been recorded longitudinally, an amplitude of a read back signal, such as a peak amplitude, is determined in order to generate a position error signal. If the marks with curved edges have been recorded vertically, an area under the curve of the read back signal is determined in order to generate a position error signal.
摘要:
A method for self-servo writing begins by calibrating at least one ruler formed on at least one storage disk. A ruler is a position-sensing pattern that defines the radial position of a recording head. The calibration process determines at least one correction factor for the at least one ruler on the disk. A servo system is then activated and the correction factors are used when writing the final servo pattern. During the process of writing the final servo patterns, the correction factors are modified to account for variations in any repeatable disturbances and for errors caused by any non-repeatable disturbances.
摘要:
A system and method for encoding read-only information comprises a storage medium, a plurality of position marks disposed on the storage medium, and a light beam directed towards the position marks to produce a reflection of the light beam from the position marks. The position marks are configured such that the reflection of the light beam is not responsive to a plane of polarization of the light beam. In one embodiment, the position marks comprise rows of substantially circular pits. The dimensions of the substantially circular pits depend on a wavelength of the light beam and a numerical aperture of a lens that directs the light beam towards the position marks.
摘要:
An optical disk has groups of features (such as depressed areas) arranged in a preselected position sensing servo pattern, and a flat, non-grooved surface between a plurality of circumferentially spaced sectors. A single photodetector senses the change in amplitude of reflected light as a spot from a laser passes over one of the features and generates position sensing signals corresponding to the pattern. At least three phases of the position sensing signal are generated for each sector. Each phase is determined by edges on the disk offset circumferentially with respect to each other and separated radially from each other by a preselected critical distance that is independent of the pitch of the recording tracks on the disk to provide a track error signal that is substantially linear within a desired range to either side of a zero-crossing point.Each even sector includes a plurality of features formed in an arrangement which is the complement and/or reversal in order circumferentially of their arrangement in the intervening odd sectors to cancel simultaneously, by averaging the position sensing signals from adjacent sectors, errors caused by variations in pattern size and/or radial velocity of an optical head as it moves generally radially of the disk.
摘要:
The present invention provides for the enhancement of the storage capacity of a data disk drive while reducing optical path optics, electronics and/or the mass and complexity of associated read/write heads. The system utilizes light transmitted by optical elements to servo track a data disk and to heat the data disk during reading and writing of data, and magnetic elements for actual reading and writing.
摘要:
The invention provides a novel wavelength-separating-routing (WSR) apparatus that uses a diffraction grating to separate a multi-wavelength optical signal by wavelength into multiple spectral channels, which are then focused onto an array of corresponding channel micromirrors. The channel micromirrors are individually controllable and continuously pivotable to reflect the spectral channels into multiple output ports. As such, the inventive WSR apparatus is capable of routing the spectral channels on a channel-by-channel basis and coupling any spectral channel into any one of the output ports. The WSR apparatus of the present invention may be further equipped with servo-control and spectral power-management capabilities, thereby maintaining the coupling efficiencies of the spectral channels into the output ports at desired values. The WSR apparatus of the present invention can be used to construct a novel class of dynamically reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexers (OADMs) for WDM optical networking applications.
摘要:
A system and method for replicating magnetic patterns on hard disk media includes a mask located over or above a magnetic recording layer. The recording layer may include a single, dual, or multi-layer recording layer. A pattern is or has been formed in the mask, where the pattern defines the recordable regions and the non-recordable regions to be created in one or more layers within the recording layer. Portions of the recording layer are then exposed. An etch may then be performed to create grooves within one or more layers in the exposed regions of the recording layer. The magnetic properties of at least one layer in the exposed portions of the recording layer are then altered in order to create recordable or non-recordable regions. The mask is then removed from the recording layer.